Catalog Course Description

Each course covers all media--painting, sculpture, architecture--and is organized topically: urbanism, fortifications, churches, chapels, palaces, villas, altarpieces, portraits, fresco decoration, tombs, public sculpture, festival decoration, etc. The works of art are interpreted in terms of style, iconography, function, setting, patronage and cultural context. A selective survey of major developments in Florentine Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture organized by genre. Particular emphasis on the relationship between art and religion and the ideology of Florentine republicanism and ducal absolutism. Issues of gender, the status of artists and the function, audience, and patronage of art will also be considered.

Fall Term

1 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 8 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.

Spring Term

1 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 8 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.